Salzberg Chapel
The Salzbergkapelle (actually the Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows ) is a Catholic field chapel that was built on the Salzberg at the end of the 17th century between the villages of Anwalting and Gibhofen ( district of Aichach-Friedberg ). It is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.
history
There are essentially two different legends about the construction of the Salzberg Chapel. A legend reports that a farmer found a picture of the Sorrowful Mother of God while plowing in his field and then set it up on the salt mountain. According to another story, a farmer from Anwaltingen received the image of the Virgin Mary from his Swabian friend around 1704 and built a small chapel for this image on his field hill.
It is historically certain that a rider had an accident between Gibhofen and Anwalting. In his distress, the rider vowed, if he would be helped, to have a picture of the Sorrowful Mother of God put up at the scene of the accident. The rider finally survived the misfortune, had a statue of Our Lady made and, out of gratitude, turned his vow to the Augsburg Carmelites . The two Carmelite Fathers Mauritius à Natiuitate and Andreas à Jesu then traveled to the Pastor Johann Wilhelm Schlickh in Lassenhofen and asked for permission to erect the statue. The pastor agreed after obtaining the consent of Vicar General Hauser von Gleichenstroff. At the same time, the provost builder Hanns Wanner made his field available for a chapel building with the permission of his manor ( Hofmarksherrschaft zu Affing). The chapel was then built in 1694.
The chapel had to be enlarged around 1760, probably due to the large number of visitors. In the course of this, the interior furnishings were also changed. There are no records of the further development of the chapel during the period of secularization . It is known that a restoration took place in 1834. Almost a hundred years later (1931) the chapel had to be refreshed again. In the years and decades that followed, however, the chapel gradually declined. In the early 1980s, an association for the preservation of the Salzberg Chapel was formed under the patronage of Walter Althammer . Between 1983 and 1985, extensive renovation work was carried out on the outside and inside.
On the night of May 13-14, 2015, an F3 tornado hit several locations in the Augsburg and Aichach-Friedberg districts. The roof of the chapel was completely destroyed and the wood on the salt mountain was laid down. After extensive renovation, the chapel was rededicated on May 14, 2017 with a festive service and the blessing by Bishop Konrad Zdarsa .
architecture
The field chapel is a two-bay rectangular building. A semicircular apse is connected to the east . A graceful gable rider with an iron cross sits on the western outer wall . A total of four windows illuminate the interior of the chapel. The entrance to the nave is on the south side, on the opposite north side there is a blind window . Several wall niches are recessed in the inner walls and the inner ceiling above is slightly arched. The roof was originally with shingles covered in wood. During the restoration between 2015 and 2017, red roof tiles were then used.
Furnishing
In the apse, a high altar is painted illusionistically on the wall. In the middle is the image of the Mother of God with the Seven Sorrows . It comes from the painter Franz Kugelmann and was created during the renovation in the mid-1980s. Previously there were two passion scenes there , which Rudolf Hotter had installed in 1931.
The fresco on the nave ceiling was also designed by Franz Kugelmann. It shows Jesus together with his mother after the resurrection. The ceiling painting above the high altar, on the other hand, depicts God the Father . It is assumed that it was installed by Sigismund Reis as early as 1760 during the redesign .
Originally there were several artistically high-quality figures in the chapel. These included Our Lady of Sorrows, Jesus on the Mount of Olives, Jesus with the cross, St. Peter with cock and St. Maria Magdalena as penitent. It is assumed that all figures come from the sculptors Bartholomäus and Johann Kaspar Öberl (also called Eberl or Eberle) from Friedberg . Father and son made the figures between around 1720 and 1740. After two angels were stolen in 1964, the remaining figures were taken to the subsidiary church of St. Andrew . In the course of the renovation between 2015 and 2017, replicas of the original figures were made using 3D printing and placed in the wall niches of the chapel. Stuccoed groups of putti are arranged above the wall niches . These were probably attached by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer around 1760 .
On the north side in front of the church there is a statue of the Sorrowful Mother of God enthroned on a plinth. It is a replica of St. Maria from the aforementioned figures.
literature
- Georg Paula, Christian Bollacher: Aichach-Friedberg district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria. Volume VII.87). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-87490-591-6 .
- Freiwillige Feuerwehranwalting eV (Hrsg.): 100 years of volunteer fire service lawyers. Festschrift for the founding anniversary 16. – 19. June 2005 . 40 p., Pröll Verlag, Augsburg 2005.
- Warriors and Soldiers Association Gibhofen-Anwalting (Ed.): 90th anniversary. Warrior and Soldier Association Gibhofen-Anwalting. 20./21. July 1985 . Festschrift, 72 pp., 1985.
- Association for the renovation of the Salzbergkapelle, CSU local association Gibhofen-Anwalting, volunteer fire brigade lawyer (ed.): Festschrift for the inauguration of the Salzbergkapelle 1985 . 24 pp., 1985.
- Church administration St. Andreas Anwalting (Ed.): Inauguration of the Salzberg Chapel . 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Affing (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number D-7-71-112-6
- ↑ Karl Leinfelder: On the history of the Salzbergkapelle in Anwalting . 1961
- ↑ a b Symbol of Destruction now gives people hope again In: Augsburger Allgemeine , May 13, 2017, accessed on July 5, 2017.
- ^ Rescue operation for the Salzberg Chapel . In: Church newspaper for the Diocese of Augsburg, May 22, 1983
- ↑ Tornadoliste.de. Retrieved May 14, 2015 .
- ↑ Radio RT 1 reports on tornado damage. Retrieved May 14, 2015 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '38.5 " N , 10 ° 56' 59.7" E